# \&background

General Option! ([`&push`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/push), [`&room`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/room), [`&view`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/view), [`&scene`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene), [`&solo`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/and-solo))

## Aliases

* `&appbg`

## Options

Example: `&background=./media/logo_cropped.png`

| Value         | Description                         |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| (encoded URL) | Changes the background of VDO.Ninja |

## Details

Accepts a URL-encoded image URL to make as the app's default background.

To test:\
[`https://vdo.ninja/?background=./media/logo_cropped.png`](https://vdo.ninja/?background=./media/logo_cropped.png)

The image will scale in size to cover the VDO.Ninja app's background. [`&chroma`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/design-parameters/chroma) can still be used to set the background color, if using transparencies. There already exists [`&bgimage`](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/design-parameters/and-bgimage), which will set the default background image for videos; this however will set a background image for the entire page.

You can encode and decode a URL here:\
<https://www.urlencoder.org/>

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## Related

{% content-ref url="and-bgimage" %}
[and-bgimage](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/design-parameters/and-bgimage)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="chroma" %}
[chroma](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/design-parameters/chroma)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="../mixer-scene-parameters/and-waitimage" %}
[and-waitimage](https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/and-waitimage)
{% endcontent-ref %}